Westgate Museum

The Westgate Museum is the surviving stub of Winchester’s medieval defensive walls, a bulwark of Anglo-Saxon stone that steps back, time after time, to meet its foe. It was remodelled in the 12th century, expanded in the 13th century, and modified in the late 14th century. Iron cannons first pointed through its round-arched gunports, but in 1554 it found a new purpose: a ceiling as a gift for the new king and queen of England, Mary Tudor and Philip of Spain. The Westgate Museum’s displays include a famous collection of pre-Imperial weights and measures. A fine painted ceiling made for Winchester College is part of the museum’s displays, but no source suggests it was made in anticipation of a wedding reception or ceremony to anoint a king.

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